The Miracle of the Cell (Privileged Species Series)

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The evidences Denton shares point to a designer with creativity, unimaginable intelligence, foresight, and purpose. The evidence from the chemistry of the main elements of life and some of the resulting molecules reveal the fine-tuning of nature by our Creator. It is a shame that Denton for all his brilliance does not conclude that the only explanation for the ubiquitous fine-tuning found in physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and biology is a personal Creator who has a plan involving human beings. But the evidence speaks plainly to anyone willing to accept it. Our universe and our presence in it are no accident. God has a plan for us. He has explained Himself in the Bible. God wants a love relationship with us, His creatures. We have been alienated from Him by our sin, but God has made a Way for us to be reconciled to Him through his son Jesus Christ. If you do not know Him, I invite you to read the gospel of John. John explains God’s love for us and His plan of salvation. Seek and you will find.

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AI succeeds where the skill required to win is massive calculation and the map IS the territory: Alone in the real world, it is helpless. Next Post At Science mag: “Really weird” gravity would be needed to explain away dark matter I am now a science and maths teacher and this book confirms so many of my intuitions about the nature of the elements and the biochemistry of organic molecules. It is so well written. I wish Micheal Denton would also turn his attention to writing textbooks. Dr. Michael Denton’s new book The Miracle of the Cell (2020), is a real treat. His approach to the design inference is different from that of other prominent ID researchers’, which makes his writings quite refreshing. I recommend reading the book along with watching some of the fine videos featuring Denton because his awe of nature and the enthusiasm with which he communicates his findings are not fully conveyed through the written word.

After the execution, Nail and Faruk arrive at Ova’s home and reunites Memo with her. Nail reveals that one of the cellmates volunteered to secretly take Memo's place in the gallows to ensure Memo escapes from jail and that Askorozlu arranged for his accomplices on the outside to delay the officer's arrival to ensure he does not realize the deception, while Nail and Faruk arranged for the leaders of other prison gangs to stage a riot to distract the other guards while Memo escapes. Nail and Faruk assist Memo and Ova in fleeing the country on a boat to seek asylum abroad. There are two types of chemical bonds involved in biochemistry: covalent and noncovalent. Covalent bonds involve the sharing of electrons between atoms and are relatively strong. Noncovalent bonding includes hydrogen bonds, dipole-dipole interactions, dipole-ion interactions, and Van Der Walls forces. These noncovalent bonds, interactions and forces (1) do not involve the sharing of electrons between atoms and (2) are usually 10 to 20 times weaker than covalent bonds (making them easier to break). These weaker noncovalent bonds and interactions play a major role in determining the 3D shape and hence function of proteins and the formation of the DNA helix. In the embryo it is not just one cell moving towards a specific target but millions of cells, each moving towards specific targets in an ever-changing kaleidoscope of different embryonic cells and chemical signals, with each cell obeying a strictly choreographed program, a program directing the timing of gene expression and a unique succession of changes in cell shape and cell surface proteins and adhesive properties in different cells in different regions of the embryo. This prior fitness is manifest also in the extraordinary utility of water to serve as the matrix of the cell, and by chemical processes in the dark vastness of interstellar space that result in the abiotic synthesis of many of the molecular monomers used by the first cells to build their macromolecular constituents. In other words, the “demonic” fitness of the cell depends on a deeper fitness prefigured into the very fabric of reality. This deeper fitness is inscribed in the laws of nature from the beginning of time, a fitness that reveals the cosmos to be, as Henderson proclaimed, a profoundly biocentric whole. Michael Denton Senior Fellow, the Center for Science & Culture and the Center on Human Exceptio When we observe the goings-on of protozoans in a drop of pond water or the antics of an amoeboid leucocyte in the human blood stream chasing a bacterium, it is hard to resist the feeling that these microscopic life forms are sentient, autonomous beings. This was the case when we had relatively primitive microscopic technology more than one hundred years ago, ⁷ and it is all the more so today.

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Soon many compounds found in living things were made synthetically. Most of the compounds contained carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. Soon the chemicals of life were seen as special because of the unique properties conferred upon them by their elemental makeup, especially carbon, and not because they were the product of a vital life force. The atoms that make up biochemicals are specifically suited to form compounds that make life possible. Once the uniqueness of carbon was recognized, the field of organic chemistry (the study of the compounds of carbon) was born. Denton remarks: The fact that all these metals are used in similar ways by all life on earth speaks to their unique fitness for the roles they play. Denton summarizes: On the other hand sometimes they got, as a birthday gift, a set of Legos specifically meant to be assembled into a ship, a motorcycle, a castle, or a caterpillar. In this case, unlike building Lego structures from randomly available pieces, they had individual pieces that were made to serve specific purposes in the overall construction. Denton makes this latter analogy in his book, arguing that hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, iron, copper, zinc etc, were most likely created specifically to serve as building materials for life. MY MAIN AIM IN THE PRIVILEGED SPECIES SERIES IS TO PRESENT the evidence that nature is uniquely fit for life as it exists on Earth, not just for the generic carbon-based cell, but also for beings of our biology, and thus to show that the cosmos is not just biocentric but also (no matter how unfashionable it may be in certain quarters) anthropocentric as well.What are the accomplishments of this thin structure made up of unconscious molecules such as fat and protein? That is, which features of the membrane lead us to call it "conscious" and "wise"? One intriguing element of fitness for bioenergetics and proton pumping arises directly out of water’s hydrogen-bonded network, which provides so-called “proton wires” consisting of long chains of linked water molecules for moving protons (H ions) around in the cell and across the inner mitochondrial membrane. While, as Alok Jha points out, other charged particles involved in cellular functions have to move themselves physically from one place to another, “protons can pass their energy along a hydrogen-bonded water wire without moving themselves at all, thanks to the so called Grotthuss mechanism.” A proton attaches to one end of the wire, he explains, and in a split second, “each of the hydrogen bonds further along the length of the wire spin around in sequence so that a proton drops off the water molecule at the other end of the wire. The initial proton has not moved any further than the starting end of the wire but its charge and energy have been ‘conducted’ along the wire’s length.” If the first living cell had come into existence by coincidence as evolutionists claim, and if just one of these properties of the membrane had not been fully formed, then the cell would certainly have disappeared in a very short time. Aga Muhlach plans to get buff again for a superhero movie in 2022". ABS-CBN News. December 23, 2019 . Retrieved January 1, 2020. Before the trial takes place, Yong-gu is trained by the Room 7 inmates on how to answer potential prosecution questions and he becomes proficient in answering them. Unfortunately, the commissioner beats Yong-gu before the trial in a fit of rage, threatening to kill his daughter if he does not confess. Left with no other choice, Yong-gu sacrifices himself by lying that he killed the commissioner's daughter to protect Ye-sung. Yong-gu is then sentenced to death and the execution date is scheduled for December 23, which happens to fall on Ye-sung's birthday. Feeling sorry for Yong-gu, the inmates decide to build a hot air balloon for Yong-gu to escape. During a prison concert, the inmates send Yong-gu and Ye-sung on the balloon while the guards pretend to be overwhelmed, but the balloon's rope is caught by barbed wire. On the day of Yong-gu's execution, the inmates and Yong-gu celebrate Ye-sung's birthday before he is executed.

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Consequently, in biological systems, calcium is primarily used where chemical information must be rapidly transmitted to a target protein to trigger a particular cellular function. This can be muscle contraction, transmission of nerve impulses across the synapse, hormone release, or changes following fertilization. The unique fitness of the cell to serve as the fundamental unit of life is also manifest in its amazing abilities and the diversity of functions it performs. Even the tiny E. coli, a cylinder-shaped bacterium in the human gut, has spectacular capabilities. Howard Berg has marveled at the versatility and capacities of this minuscule organism, calling its talents “legion.” He notes that this tiny organism, less than one-millionth of a meter in diameter and two-millionths of a meter long, so small that “20 would fit end-to-end in a single rod cell of the human retina,” is nevertheless “adept at counting molecules of specific sugars, amino acids, or dipeptides; at integration of similar or dissimilar sensory inputs over space and time; at comparing counts taken over the recent and not so recent past; at triggering an all-or-nothing response; at swimming in a viscous medium… even pattern formation.” Miracle in Cell No. 7' exceeds 12 million mark". The Korea Herald. 11 March 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-03-14 . Retrieved 2013-03-12. To briefly summarize before moving on to the final metal in this chapter: One metal, manganese, gives us oxygen. Two other metals, iron and copper, give us electron transport chains, proton pumping, and ATP. The oxidation of hydrocarbons in the mitochondria gives us H 2O and CO 2. And CO 2 requires another metal atom, zinc, if it is to be excreted from the body in the lungs. Together these provide powerful evidence for a stunning prior fitness in nature for aerobic life.a b Dizon, David (December 27, 2019). "MMFF review: 'Miracle in Cell No. 7' is a tear-jerking tsunami of a movie". ABS-CBN News . Retrieved January 1, 2020. Proteins, not DNA, were originally thought to be the carrier of genetic information. Proteins are made from twenty different amino acids, but DNA consists of just four nucleotides. We now know that DNA codes for proteins—three adjacent nucleotides (a codon) code for one amino acid—and that the sequence of nucleotides in DNA therefore codes for the amino acid sequences in proteins. Some amino acids are hydrophilic (water loving), and some are hydrophobic (water fearing). The sequence of amino acids in a protein determines how the protein will fold in an aqueous environment through the various hydrophilic, hydrophobic and intramolecular (see below) interactions and hence what 3D shape the protein will ultimately assume. The 3D shape of a protein determines its function. The specificities of a protein’s amino acid sequence and consequent 3D architecture are required for specific enzymatic activity and DNA replication. Science has no explanation for the origin of the sequence information in DNA and proteins.

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The unique fitness of the cell to serve as the fundamental unit of life is also manifest in its amazing abilities and the diversity of functions it performs. Even the tiny E. coli, a cylinder-shaped bacterium in the human gut, has spectacular capabilities. Howard Berg has marveled at the versatility and capacities of this minuscule organism, calling its talents legion. He notes that this tiny organism, less than one-millionth of a meter in diameter and two-millionths of a meter long, so small that 20 would fit end-to-end in a single rod cell of the human retina is nevertheless adept at counting molecules of specific sugars, amino acids, or dipeptides; at integration of similar or dissimilar sensory inputs over space and time; at comparing counts taken over the recent and not so recent past; at triggering an all-or-nothing response; at swimming in a viscous medium… even pattern formation. ⁴ Lastly, I hope the reader will view the video showing a white blood cell chasing bacteria across a coverslip cited in Chapter 1. Watching it conveys something of the amazing nature of these extraordinary, tiny entities, the basic units of all life on Earth. 1. THE AMAZING CELL Although modern cosmology portrays events that led to the creation of matter as undirected, The Miracle of the Cell (2020) makes it clear that this is not what evidence suggests. The designer of life was also the designer of the variety of elements constituting what we call matter. The chemical workings of the cell reveal that matter is a Lego set with designated pieces predestined to be assembled to what we call life. The elements sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc all play essential roles in the cell. The length of fatty acid chains, the nonpolar hydrocarbon portion of phospholipids, is critical to the required properties of cell membranes. The hydrocarbon fatty acid chains usually consist of 16 or 18 carbon atoms (C16, C18) covalently bound in a linear chain. If the hydrocarbon chains were much longer, they would become wax-like and less flexible. Shorter chains are too mobile and would make the membrane less stable. And the C16 and C18 chains provide a membrane with the same width as folded proteins, another remarkable coincidence that suggests foresight and design.Ji, Yong-jin (13 May 2013). "RYU Seung-ryong Wins Grand Prize at Baeksang Arts Awards". Korean Film Council . Retrieved 2013-05-14.